Vanity of Vanities

Surugadai in Edo (Toto surugadai), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Sosei Hoshi, from the series “One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)”

Katsushika Hokusai

Poem by Emperor Tenchi, from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by the Nurse

Katsushika Hokusai

Fujikawa: View of Post Outskirts (Fujikawa, bohana no zu), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige

Harumichi no Tsuraki, thirty-second poet in the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by the Nurse

Katsushika Hokusai

Goten Hill at Shinagawa on the Tokaido (Tokaido Shinagawa Gotenyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai

The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Minakuchi: Dried Gourd Shavings, A Local Specialty (Minakuchi, meibutsu kanpyo), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige

Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Clear Weather at Susaki (Susaki seiran), from the series "Eight Views of Kanazawa (Kanazawa hakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Highway: Shionata

Utagawa Hiroshige

No. 24: Shionata, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)"

Utagawa Hiroshige